 Hello. I am the storyteller. And today we will talk about Barcelona. According to Barcelona's City Council, Barcelona's population of January 1, 2016 was 1,608,746 people, on a land area of 101.4 square kilometers. It is the main component of an administrative area of Greater Barcelona, with a population of 3,218,071 in an area of 636 square kilometers. The population of the urban area was 4,840,000. It is the central nucleus of the Barcelona metropolitan area, which relies on a population of 5,474,482. Spanish is the most spoken language in Barcelona and it is understood almost universally. Catalan is also very commonly spoken in the city, it is understood by 95% of the population, while 72.3% can speak it, 79% can read it, and 53% can write it. Knowledge of Catalan has increased significantly in recent decades thanks to a language-immersion educational system. In 1900, Barcelona had a population of 533,000 people, which grew steadily but slowly until 1950, when it started absorbing a high number of people from other less industrialized parts of Spain. Barcelona's population peaked in 1979 with 1,906,998 people, and fell throughout the 1980s and 1990s as more people sought a higher quality of life in outlying cities in the Barcelona metropolitan area. After bottoming out in 2000 with 1,496,266 people, the city's population began to rise again as younger people started to return, causing a great increase in housing prices. Note, this text is entirely based on the municipal statistical database provided by the city council. Barcelona is one of the most densely populated cities in Europe. For the year 2008 the city council calculated the population to 1,621,090 living in the 102.2 square kilometers sized municipality, giving the city an average population density of 15,926 inhabitants per square kilometer with a Chample being the most populated district. In the case of Barcelona though, the land distribution is extremely uneven. Half of the municipality or 50.2 square kilometers, all of it located on the municipal edges made up of the 10 least densely populated neighborhoods containing less than 10% of the city's population, the uninhabited Zona Franca industrial area and Montjuic Forest Park. Leaving the remaining 90% or slightly below 1.5 million inhabitants living on the remaining 52 square kilometers at an average density close to 28,500 inhabitants per square kilometer. Of the 73 neighborhoods in the city, 45 had a population density above 20,000 inhabitants per square kilometer with a combined population of 1,313,424 inhabitants living on 38.6 square kilometers at an average density of 33,987 inhabitants per square kilometer. The 30 most densely populated neighborhoods accounted for 57.5% of the city population occupying only 22,7% of the municipality, or in other words, 936,406 people living in an average density of 40,322 inhabitants per square kilometer. The city's highest density is found at and around the neighborhood of La Sagrada Familia where four of the city's most densely populated neighborhoods are located side by side, all with a population density above 50,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. In 1900 almost a third were children, in 2017 this age group constituted only 12.7, those aged between 15 and 24 years in 2017 were 9%, those aged between 25 and 44 years of 30.6%. In contrast, in 2017 the age between 45 and 64 years formed the 56.9% of all Barcelonans, while in 1900 the age 65 and older were just the 6.5%. In 2017 reached a 21.5%. In 2016 about 59% of the inhabitants of the city were born in Catalonia and 18.5% coming from the rest of the country. In addition to that, 22.5% of the population was born outside of Spain, a proportion which has more than doubled since 2001 and more than quintupled since 1996 when it was 8.6% respectively 3.9%. The most important region of origin of migrants is Europe, with many coming from Italy or France. Moreover, many migrants come from Latin American nations such as Bolivia, Ecuador or Colombia. Since the 1990s, and similar to other migrants, many Latin Americans have settled in northern parts of the city. There exists a relatively large Pakistani community in Barcelona with up to 20,000 nationals. The community consists of significantly more men than women. Many of the Pakistanis are living in Chattat Valiya. First Pakistani migrants came in the 1970s, with increasing numbers in the 1990s. Other significant migrant groups come from Asia as from China and the Philippines. There is a Japanese community clustered in Bananova, late Trace Torres, Pedrals, and other northern neighborhoods, and a Japanese international school serves that community. Most of the inhabitants state they are Roman Catholic. In a 2011 survey conducted by Infoca Colica, 49.5% of Barcelona residents of all ages identified themselves as Catholic. This was the first time that more than half of respondents did not identify themselves as Catholic Christians. The numbers reflect a broader trend in Spain whereby the numbers of self-identified Catholics have declined. The province has the largest Muslim community in Spain, 322,698 people in Barcelona province are of Muslim religion. A considerable number of Muslims live in Barcelona due to immigration. In 2014, 322,698 out of 5.5 million people in the province of Barcelona identified themselves as Muslim, which makes 5.6% of total population. The city also has the largest Jewish community in Spain, with an estimated 3,500 Jews living in the city. There are also a number of other groups, including evangelical, Jehovah's Witnesses, Buddhists, and Eastern Orthodox.